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My neuro is still trying to figure out why I sometimes have seizures when trying to fall asleep or when I become deeply relaxed. There's definitely something to
by cormorrow 3y ago
My neuro is still trying to figure out why I sometimes have seizures when trying to fall asleep or when I become deeply relaxed. There's definitely something to dopamine dysfunction and epilepsy, so this music-seizure connection is interesting. Usually dopamine is neuroprotective though, for example in the case of tramadol induced seizures https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1091581817753607 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10915818177536...
- kevin42 3y agoBrains are so weird. I too have sleep related epilepsy. My seizures are always right on the edge of falling asleep or waking. As in, I know the exact moment I start to fall asleep or wake because the seizure starts with a snap (literally). Without medication it's 100% of the time. These days they call my type of seizures 'focal aware', but it can generalize to a full blown tonic clonic. Taking naps are impossible unless I pre-medicate myself, otherwise I'm going to have a seizure. It turns out the process of sleep is really complex. Lots of chemical and electrical things are happening, and it just happens to trigger some of my (TBI) damaged brain cells. Someday maybe we'll be able to map which specific neurons are damaged by how they are triggered in various forms of epilepsy.
- cormorrow 3y agoYeah, feels like I got hit with a lightning bolt in the chest and head while seeing a flash of light just as I start getting relaxed. I assumed it was a general type seizure since my body jerks with it (myoclonic?) but hadn't considered it could be focal. It used to only happen rarely when I was really stressed, but after Lyme and a couple concussions it started trending to an almost every night thing. Why must sleep be so complicated and necessary shakes fist